Artificial Intelligence

HubSpot Launches New Breeze Assistant, Self-Updating Smart CRM, And Marketing Studio In Major AI Platform Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

HubSpot has unveiled one of its largest product updates in years, introducing a redesigned Breeze Assistant, a self-updating Smart CRM, Context Home, Marketing Studio, and expanded AI-powered sales and revenue capabilities as the company reorganizes its platform around what it calls "Growth Context."

Taktile Appoints Former Databricks Engineer James Broadhead As First CTO Amid Global AI Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Taktile, an AI-powered decisioning platform for banks and insurers, has appointed former Databricks engineer James Broadhead as its first Chief Technology Officer as the company expands its engineering organization and global footprint.

LinkSquares Launches Workflow Builder Agent And Workflow Blueprints To Automate Complex Contract Processes

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

LinkSquares has introduced Workflow Builder Agent and Workflow Blueprints, two new capabilities for its agentic contract lifecycle management platform designed to help legal and business teams create sophisticated contract workflows using plain-language instructions instead of manual configuration.

Mozilla Partners With Mistral To Bring Mistral Small 4 To Firefox Smart Window Beta

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Mozilla has partnered with Mistral to bring the European AI company's Mistral Small 4 model into Firefox Smart Window beta, expanding the browser's AI options while emphasizing user choice, interoperability and open-source competition.

BackOps Raises $42 Million Series B To Scale AI Resolution Layer For Supply Chain Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

BackOps, an AI platform that automates complex operational workflows for companies that make or move physical goods, has raised $42 million in Series B funding to expand its resolution layer across supply chain, finance, and customer service processes. Insight Partners led the round, with participation from existing investors Theory Ventures, Construct Capital, Gradient Ventures and 10VC.

Decimal AI Raises $4 Million Seed Round To Expand Customer Engineering Platform For Technical Support Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Decimal AI, an AI-powered customer engineering platform for technical support teams, has raised $4 million in seed funding to expand technology that helps software companies investigate and resolve complex customer issues using code, logs, production data and other technical context. The round was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Kearny Jackson, with participation from Atlassian Ventures and Weekend Fund. Additional investors include former Stripe COO Claire Johnson, Anrok founder and Executive Chairman Michelle Valentin, and former Eightfold Chief Customer Officer Rimple Patel.

Betterworks Launches AI-Powered Workforce Readiness Tools To Identify Skill Gaps And Accelerate Employee Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Betterworks, an AI-native performance management and workforce intelligence platform, has introduced new AI-powered capabilities designed to help organizations identify emerging employee skills, close capability gaps faster and gain a more real-time view of workforce readiness.

Matter Venture Partners Closes $450 Million Fund II For HardTech, Robotics, And Physical AI Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Matter Venture Partners has closed its second fund at $450 million to invest in early-stage HardTech companies spanning semiconductors, robotics and Physical AI, AI infrastructure, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, energy technologies and AI applications for scientific research.

Neo4j Launches GraphAware Financial Crime Intelligence Following GraphAware Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Neo4j, a graph intelligence platform used to connect and analyze complex data relationships, has launched Neo4j GraphAware Financial Crime Intelligence, a new graph-native solution designed to help banks and insurers detect, investigate and prevent fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes.

Pindrop Launches BotStopper To Detect AI Voice Agents In Real Time

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Pindrop, a cybersecurity company specializing in deepfake detection and identity verification, has launched Pindrop BotStopper, a standalone technology designed to detect AI voice agents and automated callers in real time as enterprises face a rapidly growing volume of machine-generated interactions.

Salesforce Expands Missionforce With OpenAI And NVIDIA To Bring Secure AI Agents And Models To Government Agencies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Salesforce has expanded Missionforce, its AI platform for government and national security organizations, with new capabilities and partnerships with OpenAI and NVIDIA designed to help agencies deploy mission-specific artificial intelligence while maintaining control over sensitive data and infrastructure.

Embodied AI Launches With Funding To Automate European Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Embodied AI, a Lausanne-based robotics startup developing intelligent machines for manufacturing and logistics, has launched with a first financing round led by Faber VC as it seeks to build a robotic workforce capable of learning directly on industrial production lines. The company did not disclose the size of the round.

Hackuity Raises $19 Million For AI-Powered Vulnerability Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Hackuity, an AI-powered Vulnerability Operations Center platform, announced that it has raised $19 million in new funding led by Forgepoint Capital International, with participation from existing investors Bright Pixel, Bpifrance, and Seventure Partners. The round brings Hackuity's total funding to $38 million.

Pipedrive Launches Nova AI Meeting Intelligence Tool To Automate Sales Notes And CRM Updates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Pipedrive has launched Nova, an AI-powered meeting intelligence tool built directly into its CRM platform to help sales teams prepare for customer calls, record and transcribe conversations, and draft CRM updates after meetings.

OpenAI, Anthropic, And Google Discuss Joint AI Safety Standards

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

OpenAI is working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind to explore greater coordination around artificial intelligence safety, according to Reuters.

Meta Reportedly Plans 2027 Deployment Of New In-House AI Chips

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Meta Platforms plans to begin deploying its latest internally designed artificial intelligence chip in data centers during the first half of 2027, according to the Los Angeles Times.

OpenAI Reportedly Explores New Funding At $1.2 Trillion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with major investors about a new funding round that could value the artificial intelligence company at approximately $1.2 trillion, according to Reuters.

Video Creation Platform Camtasia Launches ChatGPT Plugin To Turn Screenshots Into AI-Generated Instructional Videos

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Camtasia, TechSmith's video creation and screen recording platform, has launched a ChatGPT plugin that can transform screenshots into AI-generated instructional videos, giving users a new way to create training and tutorial content directly from a conversational workflow.

Thrive Expands NextGen Platform With Elastic MDR And Cato Networks Zero Trust Integrations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Thrive, a global technology outsourcing provider specializing in AI, cybersecurity, cloud and managed IT services, has expanded its NextGen managed services platform with new security architecture powered by Elastic and Cato Networks. The investments are designed to strengthen Thrive's Managed Detection and Response capabilities, improve threat visibility and introduce a more modern Zero Trust approach to secure access for mid-market organizations.

Quorum Appoints AI Executive Bob Ghafouri To Board As Public Affairs Platform Accelerates Agentic AI Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Quorum has appointed Bob Ghafouri to its Board of Directors as the AI-powered public affairs software company accelerates development of agentic AI capabilities for government affairs teams. Ghafouri brings more than 25 years of experience developing and scaling digital and AI businesses.

Delos Data Raises Over $100 Million To Build Networking Infrastructure For Agentic AI Inference

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Delos Data has raised more than $100 million to launch Delos Nonstop AI, an infrastructure platform designed to address networking and data-movement bottlenecks as agentic AI workloads put increasing pressure on data centers. Investors include Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, Capricorn's Technology Impact Fund, Matter Venture Partners, IAG, and industry executives spanning compute, hyperscale infrastructure, networking silicon, infrastructure software, and optical connectivity.

Radical Ventures Secures More Than $1 Billion First Close For Late-Stage AI Breakouts Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Radical Ventures has secured more than $1 billion in commitments at the first close of its Radical Breakouts Fund, launching what the AI-focused investment firm describes as the largest venture capital fund in Canadian history.

Charles Schwab And Anthropic Bring Claude AI To More Than 16,000 Independent Registered Investment Advisors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Charles Schwab and Anthropic are working together to bring Claude for Financial Advisors directly to more than 16,000 independent registered investment advisors served by Schwab Advisor Services, giving RIAs an AI system designed to work alongside their existing custody, CRM, portfolio reporting and financial planning tools.

Hello Patient Acquires Converse Health To Expand AI Agents Across Outpatient Healthcare Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Hello Patient has acquired Converse Health, an AI workflow automation company for outpatient medical practices, expanding its agentic AI platform from front-office patient communications into referral management, follow-up, authorization paperwork, and other back-office workflows. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Google Adds Real-Time Voice Conversations, Interactive Study Overviews, And Short Videos To Gemini Notebook

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Google is expanding Gemini Notebook with a new set of AI-powered learning tools designed to make studying more conversational, personalized and interactive, including real-time voice discussions with notebooks, interactive study overviews, expanded quiz formats, audio recording and short educational videos.

Astera Labs Expands Leo Smart Memory Controllers To Accelerate Agentic AI Inference And Improve Data Center Memory Utilization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Astera Labs has expanded its Leo Smart Memory Controller family with three new memory connectivity products designed to address rapidly increasing memory requirements across agentic AI, cloud infrastructure and other data-intensive workloads.

Exein Raises $270 Million At $1.7 Billion Valuation To Expand Physical AI Cybersecurity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Exein has raised $270 million in new funding at a $1.7 billion valuation as the cybersecurity company expands its platform for protecting robots, drones, autonomous vehicles and other intelligent machines operating in the physical world. The significantly oversubscribed round was led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, the European Investment Bank Group through ETCI, KfW Capital and T.Capital.

OpenAI Reportedly Acquires AI Smartphone Camera Startup Glass Imaging For $300+ Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup developing artificial intelligence technology designed to bring DSLR-level image quality to smartphone cameras, in a transaction valuing the company at more than $300 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Salesforce Unveils AIforce And Koa, Expands Google Cloud, AWS, And Siemens Partnerships, And Commits $27 Million To Education At Dreamforce 2026

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Salesforce has unveiled a broad collection of artificial intelligence products, cloud partnerships, customer deployments and workforce initiatives around Dreamforce 2026, led by the introduction of AIforce, its new interface layer for bringing Salesforce data and business logic into external AI environments, and Koa, its first CRM reasoning model developed with NVIDIA.

Salesforce And Google Cloud Expand AI Partnership With Hyperforce, Gemini Enterprise And Agentforce Integrations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Salesforce and Google Cloud have expanded their strategic partnership to more closely connect enterprise data, AI agents, applications, and infrastructure across both companies' platforms.